When should I start to worry about not standing?

[snowtunesgirl]

DD turned one last week. She is a good sleeper, a good eater and generally a well baby.

She is very into fine motor skills playing, pincer grasp etc, banging things together and finding any flaw in my housework. The latter drives me mad. You can have vacummed and cleaned everything and she will STILL crawl over to the one speck of dust you've left behind and flick it as if to say: You left a bit!

She is crawling as I said before and can pull herself up onto her knees and has very occasionally when crawling over me, put weight onto her legs and straightened them.

The thing is, she's not showing that many signs of pulling herself to standing at the mo. All the things I've read say that she should've done this by now and many of her little friends are now either standing or even climbing.

The CM has commented that she'll be talking before she's walking as DD appears to be a talker and has started to really interact and occasionally parrot things back. Last week she parroted back: red, amazing and rather oddly; espresso.

So am I just worrying about nothing and is DD just more of a baby concentrating on the cerebral stuff at the mo and the physical stuff will come later?

You've nothing to worry about. This sounds exactly like my DD1 who, out of the blue, just got up and walked at 13.5mo having shown no previous signs.

She has always been extremely talkative since babyhood. I've been having two-way conversations with her since she turned 2yo. She's now almost 4yo, as bright as a button and can run, skip and jump with the rest of her friends.

Well the CM said that in her 20 years of experience, babies usually fall roughly into two categories, the ones who really concentrate on walking and those that concentrate on talking. She said that it's like their brains can only go for one or the other and then it all catches up in the end.

DD was (and is!) a talker. She had well over 100 words by the time she could walk - which she finally did at 18 months. She didn't even crawl till 13 months. I wouldn't worry if I were you!

I think your CM is right - don't worry :)

Start thinking about worrying at about 20 months

Don't worry. DD didn't pull up to standing until 17 months, then walked at 18 months. She was a bum shuffler.

I think the "normal range" is about 9 months-20 months for walking/pulling up to standing, of course there will be some either side who will be normal too, but if she's not doing it at 20 months you might want to get it checked out. I got as far as phoning the HV who said to phone again at 19 months if still not walking.

I agree with your CM, in fact I was going to post exactly the same thing!
I am an experienced nursery nurse, with over 20 years experience of looking after children, including 2 of my own. I also have a degree in early childhood studies.
She is right, some are early walkers and some are early talkers. I can't remember a baby who was both.
My own children follow this pattern- DS was walking at 10 months and wasn't a big talker.
DD wasn't walking till 13 months but was a very early talker

I agree with your childminder.
My DS was a walker and was walking at 10 months but never crawled.

DD talked better earlier but didnt walk until 13 months but was an expert crawler.

Thank you for the reassurance, I'll try not to worry.

Her speech is definitely coming along. I asked her to cheese last night and she said "chez". Close enough.

I think if you are worried you should ask hv what they think. The pulling up on knees just strikes a cord with me because my brother had wonky feet and he went on knees not standing. After straightening shoes his feet are now straighter than mine though .

Seriously though, its always worth checking with someone who can actually see your lo.

my dd was a talker, a joker and didn't stand till she was about 16 months!! late walker, was nearly 20 months. never rolled over, not much of a mover at all.

What others have said ^^

DD was lazy - no standing, playing with ride ons etc but was a talker

DS is loads more active but although he lots of words, is less conversational at the same age.

They all even out in the end

my dd couldn't stand unaided until AFTER she learnt to walk at 16 mths. Like yours, she is excellent at fine motor skills and is quite a good talker. She didn't roll til 8months or crawl until 11.5 months.

I guess I'm not THAT worried but I think a lot of her peers are just more advanced in walking. Two of them are climbing up and down stairs. In fact, my friends 8 month old is walking!

Do you have a one-year check-up with the HV where you live? In which case they'll spot any concerns there. Sounds fine to me though!

I think we do but no-one's said anything or called me yet. We did a 7-11 month review a while ago.

I'm taking DD for MMR in a couple of week's time so I'll ask the nurse then as well.

I've never heard of a 7-11 month review before so either your health authority are very thorough or they do that instead of the one year review! Yes, mention it to the nurse and you can always phone the HV a few months down the line if you're still bothered.